egypt descends into deadly political strife with street battles between pro and anti regime mobs leaving three people dead including a u.s. national. as washington's hunt for whistleblower edward snowden goes on a four star u.s. general is under investigation for allegedly disclosing a cyber attack against iran's nuclear program. and the german state t.v. channel is accused of paying its guest to criticize russia's judgment in the case of the new tories punk protest group pussy riot.

international news and comments watching r.t. coming cheve live from moscow. now deadly riots are engulfing egypt a year on from president mohamed morsi is inauguration rival rallies by his supporters and opponents have been escalating into street violence over the past week three people were killed on friday including a u.s. national in alexandria washington has reacted by allowing its non-essential staff to leave the troubled country until conditions improve our true reports. tension is rising across the country in the lead up to the anniversary of president mohamed morsi his inauguration on sunday fierce clashes raging between supporters and opponents of president morsi in the coastal city of alexandria where u.s. citizen legislator stabbed to death we don't know yet whether this was a targeted attack on the u.s. citizen and egyptian also he succumbed to his injuries from bird shots in these brutal civilian on civilian clashes the latest death we had is from port sayit.

during an explosion meanwhile the islamists the supporters of the president and saying that he was legitimately democratically elected and therefore he should only be removed from office in the form of an election so they have mass protest in cairo as an opposition forces gathered on the hurry in the midst of brotherhood to really sing a lot of dissent recently there's been a number of their offices who have been torched and fire bombed by protesters who are really angry at the group egypt is witnessing a security vacuum and an increase in violent clashes on the streets particularly during protests many citizens are reaching out to private security firms to secure their homes i spoke to some of those people affected by the ongoing violence in the shadow of the bricks in the building. is preparing for the expected violence between supporters and opponents of the egyptian president on sunday some a says he

has already fortified his small shop just of cairo as to his square with sheets of . we're still got them in my kiosk has been robbed and destroyed a few times in previous clown shoes i'm going to be keep my shop as i'm afraid of what is going to happen in the violence i don't want to lose everything again with the police taking a back seat those who can afford it are reaching out to private security firms like this one general manager a former high ranking police officer but we add to what he says his come. he is preparing for the worst as protesters demand the resignation of mr brotherhood president mohamed morsi to the manner they went on june thirtieth there may be violence between the opposition forces and the islamists so we're sending more people to the places were guarding them we're giving our staff and clients special training and information how they can secure their premises and how they deal with clashes. companies like bees are plugging the gaps amid

a deepening security crisis across the country lynchings are on the rise the latest brutal mob killing happened just a few days ago near the capital civilians are increasingly armed and protests are becoming more violent as citizens bring guns to clashes leaving many to fear for their deaths analysts say the breakdown of security is because citizens no longer fear the police who have been accused of being reluctant to provide security they also blame the government which has failed to confront the interior ministry they are responsible for the bigger they're full of law and order if they don't take the necessary steps to fix it they may want to they may wish to but if they're not actually solving it the buck stops at their door they will find a very difficult to get the ministry of interior to reform of the police services to reform. precisely because inside the police force inside the ministry of interior there are so many people that are really quite opposed to the muslim brotherhood instead of promising change president morsi played with fire in his

wednesday speech to the nation praising the police and thanking them for their work with violence on the horizon many will be forced to attend egypt's needy thriving private security industry to protect their own homes and businesses true to our. president morsi enjoys a strong support from the united states and has no intention of giving in to the opposition that is according to political analyst and author william and. this is like a festering boil that's that's been boiling as long as morsi has shown that he's done nothing to improve the fundamentals of the economy and the economy has generated the youth unemployment bulges explosion and that i think is a lot of tender box that you seen on the streets right now he's trying to ram a sharia constitution down down the throats of the gyptian people and that goes against egyptian cultural tradition ninety or eighty percent of the population are

sunni muslim the other thing is the military hasn't yet weighed in as to whether they continue to back morsi as they have done under washington enormous washington pressure so much i think this is good to make and break situation the obama administration continues to back the muslim brotherhood which is a very unfortunate thing but that's part of a larger geopolitical agenda that washington and the state department have built up morsi has already indicated he's going to take a year to one kind of brute force state power reaction to try to terrorize the opposition and do the disbanding but that's not going to work at this point. and as more demonstrations and walkouts are announced for the upcoming days in egypt r.t. is always on alert to bring you the latest developments on air and of course online at r.t. dot com what happened to the arab spring dream does egypt's first freely elected president bring any change fear poverty economic failure and violence related

to egypt's attempt to escape chaos leave it while we even deeper. egypt a year in chaos. the american government is reportedly targeting a retired army general accused of spilling classified information about a covert cyber attack james cartwright was once the second highest ranking officer in the u.s. military suspected revealing details of on the stocks net the virus that temporarily shut down iran's nuclear sites three years ago. as the details. in two thousand and ten when the u.s. carried out this cyber attack against iran general cartwright was vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and he was reported to be one of the crucial players in this cyber attack he resigned in two thousand and eleven and he is now apparently being investigated as the niekerk of that story as you remember the niek about the obama administration having carried out this cyber attack against iran came before

the election last year and the timing raise a lot of questions by them because president obama all but bragged about that operation as he ran for reelection as you remember everybody kind of assumed that it was one of those authorized the leak speakers the administration information all the time to further its own goals but the timing of this particular about the general being investigated is also very interesting he hasn't been charged with any crimes and yet again from an unnamed source that he's being investigated and this is happening at a time when the hunt for edward snowden is in full swing is the administration trying to make a point here trying to sort of say that they are targeting even the sources of those leaks that they liked it really is not clear at this point not clear whether it's their way of trying to fight the perception that the administration gets all he wants and targets only those whose meek's embarrass the government well i'll tell you caught up with former pentagon official michael maloof to get his if you

on the stuxnet things the case has become a source of embarrassment for washington. i don't buy into the argument that it was a planned leak by the administration to lead us to let the world know that we had stuck in it i think from the u.s. perspective it probably was a very serious it was very serious damage although it was almost an open secret that stuxnet came from the israelis in the united states but having someone actually had it in a high position may confirm that i think just reinforces the fact that the united states itself is engaged in cyber warfare. and it really has very little room to complain about other countries that are engaged in cyber warfare the united states was caught involved in in cyber warfare at a time when it too is again when it's when it's complained about others hacking into into u.s. systems. the father of the fugitive whistleblower edward snowden has set

out the terms under which he thinks his son would voluntarily come back to the u.s. he should not be detained or imprisoned before trial should not be subject to a gag order and should be tried in a location of his choosing this is according to a letter from snowden senior released to the media all of this comes as the thirty year old ex cia employee remains stuck in diplomatically in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport so let's take a look now where snowden could potentially be heading next while cuba appears to be a tricky option at the moment the u.s. state department said back in two thousand and six that have been or had promised to stop accepting u.s. fugitives iceland has held informal talks on whether to grant snowden asylum and wiki leaks affiliates are now awaiting comment from their interior ministry there and venezuela says it would be likely to grant the whistleblower refuge with president nicolas maduro applauding the man's bravery another south american

destination ecuador looks promising but that country cannot yet grant him asylum because he's not on ecuadorian soil whistleblower's plight has captivated the global media but investigative journalist duncan campbell says the real story is being sidelined. a lot depends on on russia but i think the russian game will bespeak to stand back and use an international territory we can do nothing and wait for other players to act but i do think that the focus is wrong because all of this distraction about snowden and where the years and what he might do nags has completely undermined the tremendous gravity of the successive documents and revelations that he's made about the scope of american and allied spying on the civil and commercial affairs of the world i think many americans recognize the true values for which their forefathers fought for in the war of independence on words

you would see in snowden we'll hear about is never going to be reflected in. demographics when the price is so tainted disgracefully so silent in simply reporting what he's got to say if there was a dissident in russia or china or the middle east speaking out in the way that snowden is doing it would have massive coverage that's not happening meanwhile the u.s. army has restricted access to the guardian newspapers website for thousands of defense personnel across the country the move against the british daily comes after its revelations of the n.s.a. spying activities r.t. sarah ferguson reports. this information is regarding reports in the us media that the us military sense of the message to them that they have been filtering content regarding government surveillance programs and this came on the back of reports about complaints from a us base and found francisco. a staff that one table to access any of the

u.k. guardian websites and only partial access to the us guardian website they said it seems that this is to do with something called network hygiene now this is preserving their system from any threats externally or internally and i spoke to the ngo the press office here in the u.k. and i asked them if anything similar was of course being done with the british military and they told me that this wasn't happening what was being done in the us right now what isn't happening here although they did say that in relation to their computer systems in the military there is some information that is sometimes restricted for security purposes it is raising questions about that suppression of information and to talk more about that i'm joined by chris flowerless for they take this thank you very much for joining us and i think the first question to our skids the use of classified documents that have been released by whistleblower and

of course in a very similar way to what we saw with wiki leaks although there's been this public release the still classified documents say i mean the u.s. military justified in you know preserving the system in this way it's nothing to do with network hygiene it is straight attempt to suppress and to control what is being read and understood by in this case the soldiers the other side of the coin is the american government and the british government are looking at all the internet or the mobile appliances or the landline phones of you me american citizens british citizens and every single person watching this program so it's a little side ridiculous. because those soldiers could actually get hold of that information all three have. computer access health problems but it's part of an overall increasing encroachment on free speech and access to information the department of defense actually said in their response that they're not going to

block websites from the american public in general and that would violate they said the hired help principle of holding and defending the constitution so they've made it clear this is just not in the u.s. this lying when they talk about democracy they are. in the head choppers when they talk about free speech they are shutting down as many things as they do you have no reason to believe one single thing that the american government says the bottom line of all of this to control the information and they normally do it by omission in the american channels not smart they just don't tell the truth you would r.t. this morning we've got plenty more coming up over the next few minutes including. harrowing new footage surfaces on the web believed to show the syrian rebels the compensating supporters of president assad just days after the u.s.

reportedly started arming the insurgency. past while the mass hunger strike in one town in my bay continues the count's the thirty's the coming under fire from the u.s. military failing prevent the suicide of a detainee stories after a quick break.

download the. application. choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't work so well with your mobile device so you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. welcome back a german state t.v. channel is facing similar questions after it emerged that it may have paid guests huge sums to russia in a bad light one of five celebrities that pot and the talk show about the trial of the notorious punk band pussy riot admitted receiving a substantial fate as the details. more than

a year after their trial and conviction pussy riot still making headlines the local actress on a title black suggested she was chased by a state broadcaster to talk about the trial i have received money from ted to give opinion on the program asked that they pay money for this i cannot tell you how much money and a lot of money is who is one of five celebrities who took part in a discussion show about the trial of the punk collective jailed for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred in response to questions from manuel oxon rights magazine the i.d.f. issued this statement. has stressed this was not the case and her expression was of a satirical nature for all it is extremely sorry that her satirical remarks were misunderstood and she asks forgiveness for causing this situation they give the impression all those five if the impression that russia is a harsh dictatorship punishing. girls for

a little artistic this was the right coverage was not repressed scenting at all of the opinion in the german people the a.t.f. is among a group of media outlets that receives their funding from the german license fee with each household expected to contribute around eighteen months the fact that the german state t.v. shows five celebrities sharing the same opinion on the pussy riot trial and on the pussy riot case is giving a very wrong impression outside also about germany because this gives the impression that we all are thinking the same if. a group like pussy riot would try to do the same thing somewhere in a catholic church itself germany i think they could be happy to be caught by the police and not to be caught by the audience in the church the main cathedral in cologne saw its own pussy riot demonstration the judge eventually issued stiff fines to two of the german participants the hearing of the third is being despond

all without the media rule rekeying. we saw in the moscow incident did you know did you. despite denials of any wrongdoing from the c.d.f. and it seems questions being raised over the objectivity of german state media feature all of a r t. of course you can get updates nor the stories you've been watching this morning at our web site at r.t. dot com and also there right now when it comes to the palestinian territories mcdonnell's isn't loving it fast food giant has refused to build an outlet in the west bank you can find out why online plus the final frontier mass is voyager spacecraft enters an unexplored. system you can follow the trip. they'll call. a new video of a beheading allegedly carried out by syrian rebel fighters has caused outrage on the internet as the details you might find the images we are about to show you

distressing. most disturbing and brutal footage has appeared online and what you see is a group of men with what looks to be a kitchen knife in their hands decapitating one by one three min on the ground it's all happening on a small hill than in the distance there is a group of women and children looking on all of this is happening to the cries of akbar god is great and the three men purported to be supporters of the syrian president bashar assad now at the same time the video appears under the heading of free syrian army cannibals decapitate an orthodox christian bishop it's not clear whether or not the bishop is one of the three men but what we do know is that a syrian bishop was killed while trying to protect religious sisters in essence the second one a street in the north of syria this video appears some six weeks after similar brutal footage was also captured online and at that time there was the leader of a syrian rebel group known as the fabric brigade showed biting into the heart of

a did syrian soldier all of this highlights the brutality of the syrian opposition and the extremist elements inside it it comes off to meetings of the friends of syria in which the united states pledged support to say and weapons to this opposition the u.k. and france indicating that they will model over this although indicating they support for such measures all of this is a very warring scenario that is why countries like russia have indicated they're operated weapons being sent to syria saying that it only perpetuates the conflict and benefits at the hands of extremist elements there. as the mass hunger strike a gun town in my bank is the hundred fifty day mock the u.s. military a poet a slam the cams authorities there accused of failing to prevent the suicide of a mentally ill detainee last september gods were allegedly negligent fading tonight

is that adnan that safe was holding medication in his cell he died after taking the pills all at once yemeni citizen had been held without charge but over a decade and his lawyers say he had lost all hype of release the report to study phase of the hunger strike is that guantanamo many of whom are being force fed could also attend suicide and blame the u.s. president for failing to use his authority to shut down the prison. there's one hundred sixty sixty chaney's at one time or prison right now there might be six seven or eight who actually should have their day in court charges should be filed due process this is a basic requirement of civil liberties due process some of them should be in court with charges filed and let them have their day in court one hundred sixty should at litter been there they should be out on the streets the new president obama has

been blogging on this he's been claiming that he can't do anything and that's simply not true he's operating a droll assassination program claiming he has the power to do that is present the united states and yet somehow he's claiming that he doesn't have the power to close down a military prison and he said if the united states armed forces is not a bit strange. some more international news in brief now the brazilian president has met the leaders of twenty five these organizations in a bid to find a way out of the popular unrest raging in the country meanwhile small demonstrations are continuing in several cities mass outrage erupted more than two weeks ago over high spending on next year's football world cup while social services and health care remain severely underfunded. iraq is facing a new escalation of sectarian violence a series of blasts across the country killed over forty people on thursday and friday clashes between shias and sunnis have claimed almost two thousand blivet

since the start of the year the last few months have been the deadliest in iraq since two thousand and eight. barack obama is in south africa as part of his visit to three countries on the continent seeking to boost america's relations and trade ties that but he's not being welcomed by everyone hundreds gathered for street demonstrations against u.s. foreign policy africans had high hopes when obama became u.s. president but those have since been dashed american aid to africa has since been severely cut while washington has stepped up stepped up military operations in the region some observers say obama's written for geo political profit on a continent where china is now the main trading power. the purpose of the trip is not to help the african people to help develop the south again nations this is a very. calculating glorified publicly ratios tour two three

crew treats and most people in africa are going to realize and you realize you're ready that this country's doing nothing to help that continent and what they do know is that the overthrow of colonel gadhafi led by nato. castor free so the african people are not are happy with president obama and he's going to or for absolutely nothing certainly be entirely some private sector companies to make a few investments but this is really the germans we're after needs. it's coming up to help us on in the morning here in moscow coming up next here on a it is that technology update.

i love life but there is a lot of sick stuff going on on this planet for example according to bloomberg a hospital in chicago has been accused by the f.b.i. of cutting the throats of patients for big bags of cash a tracheotomy is a procedure to get air directly into the windpipe of someone who can't breathe by cutting a hole into it an f.b.i. affidavit based on tape recording says that the hospital knowingly and purposely sedated patients to the point that they couldn't breathe properly and would need tracheotomy and as you know in the u.s. health care system nothing comes cheap trick out of his own days cost about one hundred sixty thousand dollars a pop this alleged conspiracy between doctors and management is not the first of its kind at this hospital an administrator and five doctors have already been charged for medicare fraud for giving and receiving kickbacks not only is having

a hole punched in your neck for money disgusting but it may also be lethal because patients at that hospital in chicago are three times more likely to die than patients at other hospitals from tracheotomies throughout the state now how did the f.b.i. find out about this well three employees ratted out the hospital and worked with the f.b.i. to make a lot of incriminating voice recordings these people risk their jobs and possibly much more to do what was right and i salute them reading out evil is no wrong deed but that's just my opinion.

good afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm harry and boring and washington d c here's the problem headline that are out today. john coridon is being sued by the u.s. which will get to any minute with edward snowden then use to languish in the airport limbo and the attempts to seek asylum in ecuador in preparation for blowback by the u.s. the president of backward or preemptively we now it's a trade pact up for discussion in congress with his representatives saying it was a new one and shipment of blackmail economic impacts could be served at nearly half of ecuador the export market depends on the u.s. but the pact already face in our pair of whole battle for renewal according to usa today snowden is purported to be any moscow airport after flying from hong kong on sunday no need to shrug this off as a one off whistleblower at.